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Conversations That Matter

The Neo-Evangelical Mirage

Conversations That Matter

Jon Harris

Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 19 November 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Jon talks about his latest substack article "The Neo-Evangelical Mirage: Relevance Strategies That Win Crowds and Lose the Church" where he opines about the dangers of neo-evangelical desire for influence and how this could translate into chasing Gen Z men to the determent of the church's greater health.


https://jonharris.substack.com/p/the-neo-evangelical-mirage



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And what sense is Andrew Tate masculine? Because he's got muscles because he works out a lot. Is there self-control there? This is a pornographer. This is someone who himself has I think even talked about raping people. This is someone who doesn't even understand what they believe. They're Muslim one day. They're sort of Christian quasi-Christian the next. They're not even a consistent Muslim.

0:31.2

This is someone who's very unstable, who seems very insecure, who seems very lonely, who, in my opinion, just doesn't even, he doesn't exhibit a lot of the masculine traits that are pretty fundamental. Yeah. Welcome to the Conversations That Matter podcast.

0:49.3

I'm your host, John Harris, and I am excited today because I finally have John Harris.

0:56.0

Dot substack.com up and running.

0:59.2

And it's not the fact that it's even a substack that I have, which you can subscribe to if

1:03.6

you want to.

1:04.4

It's the fact that I have John Harris.

1:06.9

I've never had John Harris.

1:08.9

I always get John Harris, 1989, or John Harris, two or three or five, 86 or something that's, I'm not the first.

1:19.4

You know, on X, I'm not the first.

1:21.3

On Facebook, I'm not the first.

1:23.3

When it comes to websites, John Harris.com is a bodybuilder.

1:26.3

I joke with people.

1:27.0

That's my other career, but it's not. John Harris musiccom is a bodybuilder. I joke with people. That's my other

1:27.5

career, but it's not. John Harris music is someone else who ironically does folk music, but I had to go for John Harris tunes because obviously John Harris music was taken. Finally, I have a John Harris, and that really made my day. I have John Harris.substack..com and I think the only reason I have it is because I

1:44.4

created my substack years ago and I never did anything with it. So I got in on the ground floor

1:49.3

and I noticed that when I was editing things on my profile, it gave me the option of switching to

1:55.3

John Harris, something else. I had like three numbers after it. And I thought, yeah, I got in on the ground floor.

2:02.2

This is the first time, John, I was the first John Harris to substack, even though I didn't write anything. Well, now I've written something. You can subscribe to substack. Go to, again, johnharris.substack.com. I won't get tired of saying that. And the piece that I have out there is called the Neo-Evangelical Mirage Relevance

2:20.4

Strategies that Win Crowds and Lose the Church.

2:22.9

So I wrote this this afternoon.

2:25.2

And I think what I'll do, depending on how this goes, is I am, I want to at least do more

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